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My husband had allergies to many plants back in Canada, but here nothing irritates him, except maybe me!
Yes, there are some in Liberia, but you must have missed them! Check around where they do shoe repairs or where there are leather goods hanging outside.
I am sorry to reply late…I agree that the Turrialba is a very nice place to live. In the Santa Cruz area, though, you can live in the fog for nearly every day of the year…
There are quite few ex-pats around there, you just have to know where to find them, or avoid them!If you look at one of the three online Costa Rican newspapers for ex-pats, 26th June, ’09 there is an negative article written about one the tree farms offering to grow ‘your’ trees. Unfortunately, I cannot post the link.
Trish, you may be have to ‘stick’ with Skype until you can get a SIM card here. You may be able to use your Cell phone, but you will have to present the original receipt for it, when applying for the card.
I would it would be OK as long as it wasn’t on private land. Lots of country roads, out there with rivers alongside. But we are into the rainy season now and the rivers can rise at an alarming rate, with no warning, even if there is no rain where you are, so you be on alert at all times.
BTW my hubby keeps saying he is going to make a sluice box and try this on the farm….Shaun, we just spoke with someone with regards to renewing our cedulas for the first time, in Liberia. The very informed young woman, emphasized that no receipts were required. Do you take yours?
Laika, if you had of purchased your bus ticket to Nicaragua in advance while still in CR and had it with you, the airline would have accepted this.
We had a similar experience with Continental airlines, but the agent was very good and got us a good price for another ticket, then told us that we could cancel it when we arrived in San Jose, which we did.Kevy, unfortunately, for those who prefer organic produce there really is very few growers here, and most locals who are by far the largest consumers are not prepared to pay the higher price for organic veggies. Check out your local ferria or in the towns around you and there may be someone there you can buy from.
Where we used to live, our American neighbors had an organic farm, and with a few other growers tried to establish an organic market. In reality all they did was trade within their group, and for the most part, they all sold the same items. If it wasn’t for the bread made by the American wife, they earned hardly any money at all.
At our nearest market, the only ‘advertised’ organic produce is pineapples. Presently selling for 4 for 1,000 col. and soooo sweet! Can’t ‘gripe about that price.
Some friends of ours, became friendly with, and eventually provided a local farmer with seeds that he grew ‘just for them’.
We have a large garden, here on the farm, but not organic, although there has been an awful lot of machete work gone into it.jneiman wrote “The minimum salary schedule rarely applies in the real world except to those who are grossly inept or uneducated”.
What a ridiculous statement! If there was no ‘minimum salary schedule’ some of the workers would be unable to feed their families, as in other places in the world.I would guess they do both, depending on the arrangements they have made. For a full time maid, I would presume, maybe incorrectly, the it a weekly or monthly salary. For someone who come in, 2 days a week, possibly by the hour.
More is better, IF, the maid has a choice! For ‘live in’ domestics, all over the world, they are often taken advantage of. And it may be time and a half, but, again, pressure may be put upon the domestic worker, and this was what the new ruling was designed to stop.The maids have homes, families and probably even a life outside of their “jefe’s home’
Why should they have to work 15 hours days because someone requires them to clean up after the 8PM evening meal? If, you can come to a fair arrangement with a maid, who doesn’t object to longer hours, at ‘double time’ for the extra hours, that’s fine.
You are getting cheap labor, and should be prepared to pay a fair wage as with any other employee.
Would the gardener stay late to cut your lawn, every week, with no increase in his salary? Or would you, in your previous life?
Including a free lunch just doesn’t ‘cut it’.While it may be an organic garden, I doubt they let yu pick your own produce, at a lower cost if this is why you want to do it yourself. Please realize that the farmers make very little profit so don’t try to get a ‘better deal’ because the produce prices are already low. Organic veggies require much more time consuming labor or additional hours for the farmer.
We lived in La Suiza a few years ago while we were building a house just outside of town. We found most people very friendly and helpful. Not much in the way of stores, etc but easy accessibility to Turrialba, and shopping. If one lives on the hillside, there is fantastic views.
It is very difficult and expensive, labor wise, to grow organically, here. Although most small-time farmers could be considered ‘organic’ but reality is they cannot afford to do anything except use their machetes.
Fruit and produce pickers all over the world get low wages because no-one wants to do these manual jobs anymore.
Coffee farmers pay by a unit of measure about 12x12x12,for the amount the picker has collected over the course of the day, and at a previously decided price. Most farmers in the same area pays the same.
Believe me, the farmers are not the ones who make money growing coffee! Do not believe all you read about ‘fair trade’ buyers, either.
